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- “Worked for a time for Mr. Andrews, a lawyer, on the other side of Scott’s Bridge, then went to Michigan, married and settled near Gaines.”
Robert Gillespie and Elizabeth Donaldson Gillespie
Robert Gillespie, with his daughter, Mary Jane, came over from Northern Ireland in 1838, and started work in Quebec. To earn passage money to bring his wife, Elizabeth Donaldson Gillespie, and
their other children to Quebec, he worked in the William and David Bell Pottery on the south side
of Little River. He also farmed for a time near Little River. He then decided to move to Michigan, U.S.A., and the family settled on a farm near Davisburg, where Robert spent the remainder of his life. Following his death in 1871, Elizabeth Donaldson Gillespie lived in the home of her son, Alexander, near Gaines, Michigan.
Their children were: Mary Jane, who married William Beasley and continued to live near Davisburg, Alexander, who fought in the Civil War and married his cousin Sarah Gillespie, of Quebec (they settled on a farm near Gaines, Michigan), Elizabeth, who married Franklin Winslow and located nearby in Linden, Michigan, James, who married Bell Greer and moved to Denver, Colorado, Harriet, who married Moses Parker and lived in Scottsville, Michigan, and Sarah, who married William Husted and settled in Iowa. [1]
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1806 - 1871 (65 years)
d. 1883, Ireland